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P. LORILLARD, Jr.

IMPLEMENT FOR ATTAOHING HANGERS-T0 OEILINGS, No. 295,880. Patented Man; 25; 1884.

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PIERRE LORILLAR-D, JR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPLEMENT FOR ATTACHING HANGERS TO CE ILINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,880, dated March 25, 1884.

Application filed February (1', 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PIERRE LORILLARD, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Implements for Attaching Hangers to Ceilings, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same. i

It has long been desirable toprovide a means for attaching hangers to ceilings without the necessity of using ladders or platforms by which a workman may secure such devices by hand operation.

In stores and other store-rooms, where the practice is common to hang goods from the ceiling or to display in thatmanner signs as well as articles of sale, it is a labor of considerable magnitude to secure hooks to the ceiling for the purpose, and when one or more hooks, nails, or like devices so used become detached it is a difficult matter to replace them. i

The purpose of this invention is to supply a cheap implement wherebya screw-eye, a hook, or nail may be securely fastened in the ceiling with the utmost convenience by a person standing upon the floor of the apartment, and,

if desired, secure articles to the ceiling by tacks, hang thenrupon the hooks or to the screw-eyes, and readily remove either the articles or their hangers. s

The invention consists in-an implement pro- ;vided with means whereby a screw-eye or hook with screw-shank may be held and secured into or be unscrewed fromthe ceiling,

or a hook or eye with nail-like shank maybe inserted or removed from the ceiling, and with means for holding a tack or nail and forcing it into or pulling it from the ceiling, and with means for raising and attaching or detaching and lowering an article from the hangers. This implement is well illustrated in the annexed drawings, which represent it in Figure 1 by a perspective view, in Fig. 2 by an elevation of one of its sides, in Fig. 3 by an elevation of its opposite side, and in Fig. 4 by an elevation as seen when one side plate is removed.

The structure is such as to provide a holder for the reception of the head of a hook or in Fig. 4. One cheek-plate, 4, has right-angular projections 7 8 extending over the recess between the cheek-plates, and constitutes a bearing for the shank of the hook or eye. v

The other form of the socket is provided by a slot, 2, in the plate 4, and a slot, 3, in the plate 5, which are adapted to embrace the sides and support the end of the hook or eye, as is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The stay-plate 6 is extended to form a flat shank adapted to penetrate a long handle, A, and

thus adapt the implement to be raised to a high position. Assuming that a hook or eye having a shank provided with a screw-thread is tobe inserted, say, into the ceiling of aroom, its head may be introduced laterally, so as to rest in the socket formed by the slots 2 3, when its sides will be embraced by the edges of the plates 4 5 that border said slots, as in Fig. 2, or be entered vertically, so that said head will rest upon the seat form ed by plate 6, with its sides embraced bythe inner faces of said plates 4 5, as in Fig. 4. In each case its shank 10 will be supported and stayed in the collarlike seat between the projections 7 8. When thus adjusted, the implement may be raised and the screw-shank 10 be simultaneously pressed upward and rotated, thus causing said shank to be screwed into the ceiling. When properly secured there, the implement may be detached from it by a lateral movement that will permit the head of the hook or eye to slip out of the holder, thus leaving said hook or' when, by an unscrewing action andsubsequent pulling, such removal may be effected, the de taching being compelled by the hearing which the projections 7 8 afford.

At one side of the plate 4 a nail or tack inserting and drawing device is provided. It consists of an anvil, 9, riveted to the said plate 4 and to the stay-plate 6, and is provided on opposite sides with spring-jaws 11 12, that overhang the end of said anvil 9.

To insert a nail or tack, it is entered late rally, so that its head rests upon the head of the anviland beneath the jaws 11 12, while the latter embrace its shank. By an upward I 5 thrust the nail or tack will be forced into the ceiling or other object, and the implement may be detached by a lateral movement. The mode of removal is to apply the implement by a lateral movement that will bring the-head of the nail or tack into the embrace of the jaws 11 12, when a simple pull will cause the detaching.

. especially useful where the display of a great variety of structures is required. To further adapt it to the hanging and removal of the goods themselves, its stay-plate 6 is extended to. form a hook, 13, upon which the article or goods designed to be suspended from a hanger at a high point may be suspended and raised to place or detached from the high hanger and lowered. This hook, made pointed, also acts as a brad or punch with which to form the starting-hole for the screw-shanked hangers or the entering-hole for the brad-pointed hangers; but this hook, whether pointed or not, should not protrude far enough to obstruct the rotative movement necessary to screwing.

What is claimed is- 1. A combination implement consisting of a handle to which are attached plates 4 5, constructed to form a holder adapted to sup port the head of an eye or hook and a seat for the shank thereof, an anvil to support the head of a nail or tack, and spring-jaws to embrace the same, and ahook, as 3, substantially as described.

2. In a compound implement, the combination, with the handle, of plates 4 5, set apart and provided with projections 7 '8, thereby constituting aholder adapted to support the head of a hookor eye and embrace its shank, substantially as described.

3. In a compound implement, the combination, with the handle, of the anvil 9 and jaws 11 12, substantially as described.

4. In a compound implement, the combination, with the handle and with plates 4 5 and projections 7 8, of the hook 13, substantially, as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. e

P. LORILLARD, JR. Witnesses:

O. A. LEONARD, GEO. D. FINLAY. 

